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Myth Of Aryan Invasion Of India |
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By David Frawley |
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| ARYAN
AS RACE OR LANGUAGE |
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| We should note that Vedic
literature, with its many Gods and Goddesses who can be identified
freely with one another (what Max Muller called henotheism), is clearly the product of a pluralistic culture
and world view, not that of a monolithic culture (which Hinduism
has never produced in the historical period either). Unity-in-multiplicity is
the basic theme of the Vedas which state "That which is the One Truth
the seers speak in many ways (Rig Veda I.164)." This is not the
philosophy of militant nomads but of a mature cultural complex in which many different cultural
elements have been interwoven. Simplistic invasion/migration
theories reducing cultural developments to movements of
narrowly defined groups of people appear now to be out of date, and
certainly do not mirror the Vedic view of the universe.
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